The first-ever NiddFest in Pateley Bridge and surrounding villages, which boasted Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, as its patron, didn’t only presents top nature writers in various natural settings in the Dales.

It also included a new, Yorkshire-wide NiddFest children’s poetry prize which attracted a huge number of entries from pupils in schools.

The poems on the final shortlist were selected by members of the NiddFest team and the head judge was author Piers Torday.